AI is growing faster than companies can secure it, warn industry leaders
At the DataGrail Summit 2024, leaders stressed that AI's rapid growth outpaces security measures, urging equal investment in safety systems to mitigate risks and prepare for future developments.
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At the DataGrail Summit 2024, industry leaders, including Jason Clinton from Anthropic and Dave Zhou from Instacart, expressed concerns about the rapid advancement of artificial intelligence (AI) outpacing security measures. They emphasized the urgent need for robust security frameworks to address the exponential growth of AI capabilities. Clinton highlighted a consistent fourfold increase in computational power for training AI models over the past 70 years, warning that current safeguards may soon become inadequate. Zhou pointed out the unpredictable nature of large language models (LLMs) and the potential risks they pose to consumer trust, citing examples of AI-generated content that could lead to harmful outcomes. Both leaders called for companies to invest equally in AI safety systems alongside AI technologies to mitigate risks. They underscored the importance of preparing for future AI developments, as the integration of AI into critical business processes could lead to catastrophic failures if not managed properly. The summit concluded with a clear message: as AI continues to evolve, so must the security measures designed to protect it, urging organizations to prioritize safety to avoid potential disasters.
- Industry leaders warn that AI's rapid growth is outpacing security measures.
- Companies are urged to invest equally in AI safety systems and technologies.
- The unpredictable nature of AI models poses risks to consumer trust.
- Future AI developments require proactive planning to avoid catastrophic failures.
- Organizations must prioritize safety alongside innovation in AI.
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11 commentsAI creates a ton of garbage unmitigated, and cracking down on when that garbage is harmful will be a good way to reduce the amount of garbage these companies put out.
Of course then they couldn't leak the latest exponential growth stories to the press, which now appear every week.
After all, it's the same industry that came up with pervasive and invasive tracking, automated insurance refusals, automated credit lookups and checks, racial ...ahem... neighbourhood profiling for benefits etc. etc.
The security aspect mentioned here is that ai generated recipes could poison you when they hallucinate. The fix is “governance” which isn’t really described or defined, but no doubt it’s as necessary as it is costly. We could probably just not use cooks that seem to randomly poison the food and not create a new industry of equally suspect chef-policing but hey, where’s the fun in that?
This is the key. Folks are looking at current capabilities rather than the trend line. We need to be ahead of the development AI. There probably ought to be laws regarding how AIs can be used or not used. There probably ought to be required disclosure when AI is used to create a work of art.
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